‘In today’s job climate, you can’t afford to be a vanilla sundae. You need to be a banana split’ – Peter McCarthy, comedian/banana based business consultant

‘On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it’s just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at … ‘ – Mitch Hedberg, comedian who hadn’t heard of Australian red bananas

‘You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in’ – Bradley Whitford, actor/fan of colourful metaphors